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Streatham High Road & Streatham Hill Conservation Area Planning Committee 7th December 1999 CHIEF EXECUTIVES OFFICE STRATEGY, REGENERATION & PLANNING GROUP Review of Existing Conservation Areas and their boundaries and the designation of new and extended Conservation Areas. Proposed Streatham High Road & Streatham Hill Conservation Area (CA NO. 54) (St Leonard’s Ward, Streatham Wells Ward and Streatham Hill Ward) Report to the Director of Strategy, Regeneration and Planning Consulted Formally: CEO & Bor. Sol. EDHS, EDES Contact for enquiries: Edmund Bird – Conservation Officer (Tel: 0171 926 1215) PURPOSE To designate the Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill Conservation Area (CA No. 54) RECOMMENDATIONS (1) That the designation of the Streatham Road and Streatham Hill Conservation Area (CA 54) is approved under section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as shown on Plan No. DES/PP/445. (2) That the boundary of the extended area is approved as shown on Plan No. DES/PP/445 For Decision. 1. Context 1.1 The function of the planning system is to regulate development and use of land in the public interest. The best of the borough’s built and landscaped environment can be valued and protected as part of this regulation through the designation of new conservation areas or extensions to existing ones. The enduring quality of these areas adds to the quality of life of residents by protecting and enhancing the local scene and sustaining the sense of local distinctiveness and civic pride. 1.2 Existing Conservation Areas and their boundaries are currently being reviewed by the Council, in accordance with guidance contained within Planning Policy Guidance (PPG15) (sec. 4.3) issued by the Department of National Heritage and the Department of the Environment in September 1994, and Conservation Area Practice issued by English Heritage in October 1995. The importance of preserving and enhancing the character and appearance of areas of historic or architectural interest and setting high standards of design for new development in and around these areas is also a key policy contained within the Unitary Development Plan. Policy CD1 states that the Council will consider whether Conservation Areas should be extended or new ones designated in areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character of which is desirable to preserve or enhance. A strategy for the review of existing conservation areas and the designation of new conservation areas was approved by the Environmental Services Committee on the 21st July 1997 (Ref: ES 55/97-98). 2. Justification The proposed Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill Conservation Area stretches from Telford Avenue to the Streatham Bus Garage encompassing buildings fronting onto Streatham Hill (not including those already within the Leigham Court Estate CA31) and those that line the length of Streatham High Road. The Conservation Area includes the impressive length of commercial and purpose built residential apartment blocks dating from the late Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war era and includes the Free Tate Library, the Police Station, St. Leonard's Church, the Odeon and ABC Cinemas and other public buildings which form an important centre for shopping, recreation and commerce. 3. Historic Context Streatham High Road is one of London's major arterial roads. From Roman times, and perhaps earlier, it has been an important highway running between London and the Weald. Traces of pre-Christian burials were discovered when St. Leonard's was rebuilt in the 19th century and indicate that this could have been a burial place over 2000 years ago. Also discovered were Roman masonry, coins and a Roman ditch. It is probable that the Romans built a military station on the site of St. Leonard's consisting of a small fort enclosing two or three acres surrounded by an earthwork and a ditch. The derivation of the-name "Streatham" being from the Saxon "Strat" meaning Strcet and- "Ham" meaning Settlement. Streatham probably evolved as scattered settlements of Saxon farms along the two Roman roads, which ran through the area. The Chertsey Register mentions grants of land to the Benedictine Abbey of Chertsey in 675 by Frithwald on behalf of Wulfere, the Christian King of Mercia, which refers to seven farmsteads "apud Toting cum Stret". After the Norman Conquest the manor of Streatham was given to Richard de Tonbridge - an entry in the Doomsday Book values the manor at 60 shillings and the population was estimated at fifty people. In 1086 the name was recorded as Estreham and by 1175 as Stratham. Today these two roads are the A23 through Streatham and the A24 through Balham. The A23 bisects Lambeth from north to south. The medieval village centre grew up around what is now the parish Church of St Leonard's at the Junction of Streatham High Road and Mitcham Lane and stretched from Becmead Avenue to Streatham Station. The original church dates from the 1350's, while the registers at St Leonard's commenced in 1538 charting the slow development of the village and also recording the deaths during the plague and many, no doubt murdered by highwaymen, on Streatham Common. The high point of St. Leonard's Church was a focal point for ancient cross-country route ways. Medicinal springs were discovered in Streatham in 1659 and by the early 18th Century were proving very popular with concerts being held twice weekly with one commentator describing the Common and the High Street as * fashionable promenades where all the leaders of society might be met'. The usual dose was apparently about three cups which was said to be the equivalent to nine cups of Epsom waters — spring waters were pumped and sold right up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Rocque's map of 1746 also shows a smaller settlement at Lower Streatham, west of Streatham Common. Also recorded are Russell House and Bedford House, the manor houses belonging to the Dukes of Bedford, dating from 1695, which have long since gone. The 18th Century saw large houses in their own grounds constructed for the wealthy who wanted to escape the unhealthy and squalid conditions of that period encountered by many living in the city. Most notable of these inhabitants were the Thrale family of Streatham Park and their famous guests including Dr. Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and Edmund Burke. Coventry Hall, built in 1799, stood opposite the site of Streatham Station. During the nineteenth century when London expanded rapidly and new railway lines were opened, the fields and small villages close to the capital were engulfed by new development. From the mid 19th Century Streatham experienced this dramatic change with force. The population of Streatham grew from about 400 in 1725 to 2,357 recorded in the 1801 census, and by 1831 it was recorded as 5,000. By 1900 the population had reached 70 000. The opening of Streatham Hill Station in 1856 and Streatham Station in 1868 made the area accessible to those who worked in the city. The old estates with their valuable grounds came under mounting pressure to be developed and during this time many were broken up and sold off for building. This expansion continued into the early part of the twentieth century when the leafy avenues and open spaces, the burgeoning retail centre, the transport both to London and the south coast and the opening of glamorous theatres, cinemas and dance halls made Streatham a highly desirable address. Trams arrived in Streatham in 1904 when the lines from Brixton were extended from Telford Avenue to the Tate Library. Population growth was further accelerated after 1911 with the electrification of the line from Streatham Hill to Victoria and Crystal Palace. Streatham attracted the new middle classes, including doctors, architects, managers, teachers, music hall and variety performers. As a result Streatham as a whole reflects the enormous social, economic and architectural changes that occurred during the latter part of the 19th century and the first four decades of the 20th century. Today there is still some evidence of the old village centre when Streatham was a small village surrounded by fields - primarily the remaining portion of the village green and the Victorian Gothic drinking fountain (1862), which was designed by the painter and local resident William Dyce, St. Leonard's Parish Church and some surviving Georgian properties to the north east of the Church. For the purposes of clarity the following description of the proposed Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill Conservation Area has been broken down into east and west sides and by blocks defined by adjoining roads. 4. Proposed Streatham High Road Conservation Area East Side Wavertree Road Corner Fielde This block of purpose built apartments was designed by Toms and Partners for the Bell Property Trust and dates from 1937. The imposing exterior incorporates bay windows, which reach up to the fifth floor. The windows throughout the building are Crittall type metal casements with opening top lights to allow maximum light into the flats. The decoration on the dramatic and austere facade is pared down to a simple band of wave patterns around the third floor and bands of self-coloured brickwork on the ground and first floor. Described in the original sales brochure as Mayfair in Streatham these flats boasted "unusually spacious, luxurious accommodation planned on suntrap lines, constant softened hot water, tiled kitchens and separate tradesmen's entrance. 3 charming rooms, kitchen, bathroom etc., from £105 p.a." Comer Fielde stands on the former site of Streatham Hill Boys College and where before that stood Wooton Cottages. Wavertree Court Wavertree Court, standing across Wavertree Road on the opposite comer from Comer Fielde, was designed by Frank Harrington and is in a very different style. Dating from 1933 this scheme is in a Dutch style with mansard roofs incorporating dormer windows and return gable ends.
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